Eyewitness: Tripoli, Libya

Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

Heavily armed rebels enter the heart of the old regime, Muammar Gaddaﬁ’s Bab al-Aziziya compound in Tripoli. The statue of a golden ﬁst crushing an American ﬁghter jet was commissioned by the Libyan leader in 1986 in a show of deﬁance against the west Sean Smith for the Guardian